I'm completely shocked that no NFL team wants a million-dollar media-circus prima-donna "quarterback" who can't actually throw.

born_yesterday: Good.  The sooner he's out of football, the sooner he can get into politics where he truly belongs.

I got a sawbuck here that says he's the pastor of a megachurch within 5 years.

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Gosling: born_yesterday: Good.  The sooner he's out of football, the sooner he can get into politics where he truly belongs.

A, I highly doubt he's going to be anything other than a Republican and we have quite enough of those thank you very much.
B, if some team doesn't put him on the field, the fact that he managed to QB the Broncos from 'lost season' to 'playoff win' guarantees that if he never sees another snap, you will hear about him in perpetuity every time someone does a list of What Might Have Been players. If you kill him now, he will become immortal. The only way to prevent that is to have someone, in the NFL, put him on the field, as a quarterback, and wait for him to suck enough that his supporters shut up.

The Jets didn't do this already? Or was his lack of playing time just fuel for the "he never got a fair chance" crowd?

Slowest pass-release in 30 years in the NFL. Without his size and running ability he would have never gotten a second look.

Matt Cassel has a job and Tim Tebow doesn't.  That amuses me to no end.

So... Tebow and which 3 other guys?

Gosling: Generation_D: The Jets didn't do this already? Or was his lack of playing time just fuel for the "he never got a fair chance" crowd?

No. The Jets DIDN'T do that. Ryan farking LIED to him. All season he was told he was the #2 guy, and then when Butt Fumble forced Ryan's hand, he sent in McElroy and made clear to Tebow that, no, you've actually been #3 all along.

He LIED? Or he saw in practice that Tebow SUCKED and didn't DESERVE to start in the NFL ?

Oddly specific CAPS locks FTW.

Gosling: Generation_D: He LIED? Or he saw in practice that Tebow SUCKED and didn't DESERVE to start in the NFL ?

No. Lied. If he was the #3, farking tell him he's the #3. Don't string him along all year by telling him he's #2 and then tell him right at the moment #2 is needed that he actually wasn't. Ryan wasted the fans' time, and he wasted Tebow's time. And it tells Tebow he can never trust another word that comes out of his own coach's mouth. Would you trust a coach that pulled that shiat on you? Because I sure wouldn't.

You make Tebow sound like a precious and unique snowflake that needs to be protected from the evils of the world.

Rather than the God-given blessed QB with all of the leadership ability that being a favorite of ESPN commentators gets you.

I know this much, the market for backup QB is way down this year. The Seahawks got a 5th round pick peddling Flynn off to Oakland, which is crazy less than what they thought they'd get for him. Maybe the market being down for backup QB is partly to blame for the lack of a rush to acquire Tebow?

Maybe contributing to this is how every defensive coord/head coach has seen enough tape on Tebow to know that the only way he helps you is during busted plays where primary coverage has broken down, because he 1) Isn't an accurate enough or fast enough pocket passer, because 2) He has a very slow read and a very slow release for an NFL QB, and 3) because of his size, he always got by on his physical strength that 4) Only works on busted plays where the defense has no LB spying him from the start, see point (1).

He's Roethlesburger without the accuracy. For his type of QB to work you have to constantly have a mismatch at wideout who is a good 10 yards clear, AND, you have to have no defense that can both pass rush and guard the line of scrimmage against a QB thats going to run 2/3 of the time only.

I still think he might be able to be a decent Read-Option backup, but the slow release point and inaccurate throwing arm (by NFL standards) takes a huge toll. Its one thing to beat a tired defense in the 4th quarter, its another to completely suck so badly you never get to the 4th quarter in a close game.

Maybe NFL teams are just unconvinced. Maybe the LORD is testing his faith. Either way he's a mediocre QB and everyone not caught up in the hype saw it from the minute he left Florida.

Maybe Tebow can line up and face Te'O in the Jesus Bowl every year, that'd sell tickets. Skip Bayless can promote.

WillofJ2: What I don't get about him is he can at least run and is a bad passer, and there are a few teams starting with guys that cant run and are bad passers that are expensive and bring no publicity, seems like a good choice from a business standpoint

Maybe, but why give the J-e-s-t anything for a player that they are probably going to cut?

Gosling: rka: After it became apparent that the Jets coaching staff had nothing but contempt for Tebow, the idea that he, as a gimmick foisted on the team by upper management, would hold any sway in the locker room is absurd.

You're thinking in terms of 'Tebow makes everyone hate Ryan instantly'. No. Think like 'Tebow gets in the head of some other back-of-the-depth-chart guy, that guy gets in the head of a third guy, third guy gets in the head of a fourth guy, and it telephone-games through the locker room until Tebow's fingerprints aren't visible anymore'.

Mark Sanchez said that Darrelle Revis said that Santonio Holmes told him that he heard Skip Bayless say that Tim Tebow thought Rex Ryan was a total douchebag, but he didn't say douchebag cause he's Christian or something, but I don't think I want to play for the Jets anymore.